A 25-year-old Spanish woman who was jailed for over four months in Iran on spying charges and has now returned home after her release last week, said she kept forcing herself throughout her ordeal to think she would go free as she had done nothing wrong.
Spanish backpacker Ana Baneira, 24, smiles as she speaks for the first time to the media after being released after she was imprisoned in Iran since November, during nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of a young woman in September, in A Coruna, in northern Spain, March 2, 2023. M.
Ana Baneira, her hair short after prison, told Europa Press news agency on Thursday that not knowing the charges against her for many days while being unable to communicate with other prisoners who spoke no English was probably the hardest part. "At the start, the uncertainty made it very hard. You fear you'd be accused of spying, which ended up happening," she said in the interview pooling several media, including Reuters.
"You keep hoping that you'll be freed because you've done nothing wrong. The problem is that days go by and they don't release you, so you force yourself into thinking you'll get out." Baneira, who works for a human rights non-governmental organisation but says she is not an activist, denied taking part in anti-government protests that started after her Sept. 6 arrival in Iran as a backpacker following a tour of Georgia and Armenia.
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